Please note that this calendar is subject to change. Please contact the museum to confirm.
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Opened Thursday, July 5th, 2012 and runs through December 29, 2012.
A Taste of Native America explores the food and related culture of native people throughout Washington. Local rivers, forests and prairies provided a varied and nutritious diet. Fishing, hunting, gathering, and food preparation remain important skills handed down through generations. Ceremony and ritual underscore the importance of food to native life. This traveling exhibit from the Washington State Historical Society’s Traveling Exhibit Service will be supplemented with examples of native foods and related items from the Clark County Historical Museum’s collection. A special installation by award winning Wasco, Yakima, and Warm Springs artist Lillian Pitt is featured.
Exhibit sponsored in part by Humanities Washington and the Washington State Historical Society.
Lecture sponsored in part by: Applied Archaeological Research and Northwest Cultural Resources Institute. Lecture/reception refreshments donated by The Grant House Restaurant.
Media Sponsors: The Columbian and the Vancouver Business Journal
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Run dates: January 3rd, 2013 – March 6th, 2013.
An exhibit on Richard Brautigan is now on display in our northwest gallery, just in time for January 27th’s interNational Unpublished Writers’ Day Workshop at the museum.
Come browse black and white prints of Brautigan taken by photographer Erik Weber as well as artifacts from the Brautigan Library in Vermont and from Richard’s life.
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Photograph of 'Mapping Clark County' exhibit case at the 2011 Palmer Wirfs Antique & Collectible Show in Ridgefield, WA
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This exhibit ran from November 15th, 2011 to February 18th, 2012.
Beginning November 15th, 2011, the Washington State Historical Society‘s traveling exhibit Working with Tradition will be on display in the north-west gallery. This exhibit will explore the “hand-made” traditions carried on by artists in Washington State. Exhibit panels around the gallery will describe fourteen folk artists’ work. Examples of folk art from the museum’s own collection will also be featured.
This exhibit is brought to the Clark County Historical Museum through the generous support of Humanities Washington with media support from the Vancouver Business Journal.
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Tagged exhibit, folk art, traveling exhibit, Washington, WSHS
This exhibit closed on February 2nd, 2012.
This new exhibit continues our recognition of the centennial of Washington State women gaining (and keeping) the right to vote in 1910. (Oregon women gained their right to vote in 1912.) This exhibit was made possible due to the generous support of Margaret Colf Hepola, The Vancouver Business Journal and The Columbian.
The Clark County Historical Museum will open their newest exhibit, Road to Equality: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in the Northwest on Thursday, June 24, 2010 , with a reception from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m . This new exhibit continues our recognition of the centennial of Washington State women gaining (and keeping) the right to vote in 1910. (Oregon women gained their right to vote in 1912.) Reception attendees will have the opportunity to make their own political buttons about issues of personal interest and vote on the Equal Rights Amendment while mingling with some of Vancouver’s legendary ladies as played by the Vancouver Heritage Ambassadors. This exhibit will also launch the museum’s first use of the Guide by Cell program which enables museum visitors to access additional information throughout the exhibit by using their cell phones. The program will also enable visitors to provide the museum with feedback about this newly created exhibit. Light refreshments will be served; the reception is free and open to the public.
From the victory of the 19th Amendment to the struggle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, many women – and men as well – worked their entire adult lives to secure women’s rights. Today, in the Northwest and across the United States, women have made inroads into formerly male-dominated fields including politics and commerce, but it has been a long road and large disparities still remain. This exhibit will challenge as well as educate and entertain as you learn more about some of the Northwest’s heroines from pioneer times until today. Road to Equality will run through December 31, 2011. During the 18 month exhibition we will host a number of related public programs that will be held in conjunction with this exhibit so check in with museum staff or this website for upcoming details and scheduling information.
This exhibit was made possible due to the generous support of Margaret Colf Hepola, The Vancouver Business Journal and The Columbian.
Downloadable Paper Dolls (Pepper Kim, creator, CCHM Educational Advisory Committee Member)
Scavenger Hunt for the Road to Equality (Created by Legacy High School Teacher Pepper Kim)
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Tagged Equal Rights Amendment, exhibit, Road to Equality, Washington State
This exhibit opened February 3rd, 2011 and closed on October 29th, 2011.
This exhibit features the subject of much local debate: the Interstate-5 bridge that spans the Columbia River from downtown Vancouver to Jantzen Beach. We created this exhibit in order to provide context for the current bridge debate by showing how the bridge was begun and how it has changed since the idea was first conceived over a century ago.
Although this exhibit is no longer on display at the museum, it will be on special exhibit on Saturday, January 21st and Sunday, January 22nd, 2012, at the Palmer-Wirfs Antique and Collectible Show at the Clark County Event Center in Ridgefield, Washington!
The Interstate Bridge is also the subject of a featured article in our 2010 Clark County History Annual, available now at the museum! Call us at (360) 993-5679 or send an email to info@cchmuseum.org for more information.
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Brautigan Exhibit Trout Fishing Poster
This exhibit will feature previously unpublished photographs of noted author Richard Brautigan taken by photographer Eric Weber, posters and other memorabilia from his readings in San Francisco, a selection of the nearly 400 unpublished manuscripts donated to The Brautigan Library, and video and sound installations created by the Washington State University Vancouver Creative Media & Digital Culture faculty and students.
Please join us on Thursday October 7, 2010 from 5-9 PM for the opening of, Autumn Trout Gathering. This exhibit will feature previously unpublished photographs of noted author Richard Brautigan taken by photographer Eric Weber, posters and other memorabilia from his readings in San Francisco, a selection of the nearly 400 unpublished manuscripts donated to The Brautigan Library, and video and sound installations created by the Washington State University Vancouver Creative Media & Digital Culture faculty and students.
The exhibit is being curated by WSU V’s Dr. John Barber and Jeannette Altman and will run through January 30, 2011 (Brautigan’s birthday). At 7 PM noted Brautigan scholar and WSU V professor, Dr. John Barber will lecture on The Brautigan Library Challenge which will explain our exciting new museum program in more detail. Light refreshments will be available. Exhibit openings at the museum are free and open to the public; donations are appreciated.
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This exhibit closed in 2010.
This exhibit featured the work of more than a dozen local female artists, ranging in media from acrylic and beadwork to sculpture and three-dimensional collage.
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This exhibit was on display at the museum during 2010.
Franklin D. Roosevelt helped create a Democratic tidal wave that swept across Washington and the nation in 1932 during the depths of the Great Depression. He promised Americans a “New Deal.” After Roosevelt took office in March, 1933, each day brought dramatic new developments and agencies, including the Works Progress Administration, or WPA.
The New Deal in Washington took many forms, some as awesome as the Grand Coulee Dam, frequently described as “the biggest thing on earth.” The common thread running through many New Deal programs was jobs for the unemployed. Unemployed artists, laborers and researchers were all put back to work in their communities leaving behind a legacy of roads, bridges, murals and parks. Maria Pascualy, curator at the Washington State Historical Society, selected 30 photographic images from representative projects across the state and paired them with an essay by historian Carlos Schwantes. The Washington State Historical Society is a repository for the WPA Washington State photographic collection, the WPA Washington State Federal Writers Project manuscript Collection and the WPA king County Emergency Relief Administration Photographic Collection. This exhibit is from the Traveling Exhibit Service of the Washington State Historical Society.
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Note: This exhibit is now closed.
Picture Clark County featured 32 selected reprints from the digital photographic collections of Clark County Historical Museum, along with several antique cameras from the curator’s private collection.
A Curator’s Talk, featuring co-curators Jeannette Altman and Robert Schimelpfenig as well as Susan Tissot, executive director of the Clark County Historical Museum, was held in the WSU Vancouver Library on January 14, 2011.
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Tagged exhibit, history, offsite, photograph collection, WSUV
Note: This exhibit is now closed.
Reflections of Change: Memories of Mount St. Helens. Commemorating the 30 th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption that forever changed Clark County ‘s skyline… Sometimes life can change in a single instant. On May 18, 1980 , Mount St. Helens erupted with a level of violence that few had expected. Join us for an exhibit featuring personal accounts of those who lived, worked, and played in the shadow of the ice-cream-cone shaped mountain that will never be the same. Each of these accounts is a valuable piece of the story as a whole and together they give a more complete and personal look at the effects a natural disaster can have on the landscape.
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Tagged 1980's, exhibit, Mt. St. Helens, volcano, Washington State
Note: This exhibit is now closed.
The baby boom generation has never been shy about telling the world what’s on its mind. Clark County Historical Museum has extended the run of its Boomer! exhibit through 2009 due to baby boomer demand. “Baby boomer” is a term commonly used to describe the 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964. The Boomer! exhibit, exploring the ways the baby boom generation transformed American culture, places particular emphasis on Southwest Washington. The exhibit originally was scheduled to close at the end of April 2009. It now will run through the end of 2009.
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Note: This exhibit is now closed.
Catharine Paine Blaine: Seneca Falls and The Women’s Rights Movement in the State of Washington is a traveling exhibit that celebrates the 2010 Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial through an exploration of the effect of settlers’ reform ideas on the development of women’s rights in Washington State. Washington was an early leader in women’s suffrage and passed a voting law 10 years before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Catharine Paine Blaine and her husband, David E. Blaine, were the first Methodist missionary couple in Seattle in 1853. Blaine, one of the 100 signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at the July 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., had strong views about women’s rights. Blaine voted in Washington long before the women of her native New York State gained that right. The exhibit includes a timeline of the movement to win women’s suffrage in the State of Washington.
The exhibit, which runs through the end of the year, is a joint project of Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and the Washington State Historical Society.
The exhibit opens on the same evening as July’s First Thursday Museum After Hours speaker Linda Chalker-Scott discusses most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Chalker-Scott is a Washington State University professor and Master Gardener Program curriculum director. Chalker-Scott wrote The Informed Gardener and will sign copies of her book. The museum is open for free 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday evenings. Lectures begin at 7 p.m.
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Note: This exhibit is now closed.
The Mapmaker’s Eye exhibit commemorates the bicentennial of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson’s explorations in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812. It will be at Clark County Historical Museum for a limited engagement through June 6.
The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson (1770-1857) on the Columbia Plateau, is a traveling exhibit based on a book by Spokane, WA historian Jack Nisbet. The exhibit opens at the Clark County Historical Museum at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29 and runs through June 6, 2009. The exhibit commemorates the bicentennial of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson’s explorations in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812. Thompson, the counterpart of America’s Lewis and Clark, was an English-Canadian fur trader who worked for the Hudson Bay Company in Manitoba, Canada, before joining its competitor, the Northwest Company. Thompson was the first European to navigate the full length of the Columbia River. The maps he made of the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains were of such high quality and detail that they were used well into the mid-20th century. He also was the first Euro-American to make the acquaintance of many Plateau tribes.
The exhibit originally was designed by the Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane. It is made available via the Washington State Historical Society’s traveling exhibit service. It features excerpts from Thompson’s field journals and reproductions of his maps and sketches; historic paintings by Paul Kane, Henry J. Ware, and Gustavus Sohon and; photographs of period surveying instruments, fur trade items and tribal artifacts. It also includes related objects from the Clark County Historical Museum Collection.
Two books about David Thompson are available at the Museum:
The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau
By Jack Nisbet Washington State University Press; 2005
Columbia Journals
By Jack Nisbet Washington State University Press; 2005
Bicentennial Edition By David Thompson (Edited by Barbara Belyea) University of Washington Press; 2007
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